And thank God the Democrats didn’t win as they would have destroyed the country. The Democrats in 1876 were the most murderous racists who organized campaigns to kill black Americans Republicans and their white allies in “fusionist” parties. The future Democrat Senator and Governor Ben Tillman in the 1876 election executed the “Ellenton Plan” by organizing the Red Shirts into a posse that went out and killed over a hundred black Republicans and their allies, killing on black American state senator who had been elected and killed black federal national guard troops. It wasn’t until summer of 1964 that many of these racist Democrats quit the party and went over into the empty Republican Party they had disenfranchised in that state constitutions from 1890 to 1910. Democrat Governor Tillman led the charge in 1895 to disenfranchise black voters when gathered up the Democratic Party in his state and said that they were meeting with “the sole intent” to pass this new state constitution to disenfranchise black voters. They passed it over objections of black ex-congressman Small who stood up and asked it not to be done. It was done and over 100,000 black American Republican voters were taken off the registration roles. Each confederate state did the same during that time. Alabama took 184,000 black registered Republicans off their roles in 1903 out of 187,000. But white people wrote history, so of course it’s not talked about and our brains can’t acknowledge this fact (which is from the Alabama government website).
Thanks for telling the story of how the South won, as it is not black and white and simple, and in many ways they did win.